Have a client who hired her own painter, that's normal. She got his card off the B. Board at the paint store. Guy gave her a great price, pretty much is showing up on time and can't complain about the work too much. He painted switchplates on the wall which is just lazy, IMO. They always end up looking like crap, so I had to address that. He didn't like it.
Here's the biggie tho, he is leaving all his stuff in the client's home each night. This job started on Monday and will be ten work days, at least. Painting almost the whole house. I have always worked with painters who work with a *no-trace* kind of process. Every night they clean up and move their sh1t out and you really can't tell that the house is being painted. Not even a brush is left behind. I've come to expect this.
I walked in this house tonight at 6 pm and he left his ladder set up in the two-story family room. This is where these people hang and watch TV every night. There is this giant cart thing that he set up in the kitchen. It's the size of a regular kitchen island! This thing holds ALL of his supplies/tools and has a significant foot print in this large, but not huge kitchen. This is stuff I'm used to seeing in painter's vehicles, they go out to their truck and get what they need. He assembled this cart in her kitchen and he's leaving it there for the duration! She said he walks out each night with a can of Mountain Dew and that's it.
She offered him an empty bay in her 3-car garage to store his supplies/tools and the use of her laundry sink. The only thing in the garage is a bucket. When I heard that she offered him the use of the utility sink in the laundry but instead he washed out all his crap in the bath tub, I had to take a deep breath and control myself. With her kids, the dog and trying to live as normal as possible in the house for the next two weeks I told her I'd be happy to speak to him about cleaning up each night before he leaves. She doesn't want me to make him mad.
Making him mad is about the last thing I give a flip about and being as appalled as I am, I thought it'd be wise to get a check about what would be a reasonable compromise. Or if there even should be a compromise. I kinda don't think so, but what say you guys?